The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-07-26
POUNDS!
The Mystery About Nellie Stark
and Iona Grant Unrav-
eled.
Theories and Surmises and Sup
positions Innumerable I'm
Regard to the Missing
Maidens, All Go for
Nothing.

| The BAzoo, at the request of the
family, did not give the names of the
two young girls who turned up miss.
ing Monday afternoon, but all the
same the reportorial detectives of this
paper proceeded carefully and eau
tiously to work, and ran down every
clew that had the faintest suspicion of
leading to definite results.
The girls, whose names are Iona
Grant, aged seventeen, and Nellie
Stark, aged fifteen, were last seen
Monday evening about 5 o'clock when
they told number of acquaintance
"good-byeP Ofcourse no particular
Importance was attached to the cas-
ual farewell, for young people in
health and comfortable surroundings
are naturally prone to do
funny things. But when Tuesday
came and Miss Nellie didn't show up
at the home of her parents, and Miss
Iona failed to return to the residence
of Mrs. Mcclellan, on Broadway,
where she is boarding, the anxiety
began to be great.
Investigation was set on foot in
every direction, and speculation was
active. The telegraph was called
into requisition, and inquiries were in
stituted on all the trains going or
coming in. Nothing could be ascer-
taided. Theories were plentiful, how.
ever, as is usual in such emergencies.
Some thought the young ladies had
started to Denver, where a brother of
Miss Grant is lying sick at hospital,
and on whom Miss Stark is said to
have bestowed the tropic warmth of
her fresh young love. Others thought
that the girls were abducted for i'm
moral purposes, and still others sur
missed that the young misses were
somewhere in town, in hiding for
some purpose not clearly understood.
Capt. Mason, who was put in charge
of the matter of finding the girls,
used the telegraph literally
and made investigations, personally,
but without result. The police were
not asked to lend their services, un-
til to-day, when under instructions of
the Starks, Capt. jackson. had print
ed the following postal card to send
to parties at points where the young
ladies were supposed to be gone:
RUN AWAY FROM HOME.
NELLIE STARK-left home Monday
July 18th, 1887. Is years old; rather
small and slender; fair complicated, dark
hair, blue eyes. Lawn dress with pink
dots, sssh of same brown hat.
IONA GRANT-17 years old; dark hair
dark brown eyes; slender; slightly |
stopped. Lawn dress with blue stripes, |
large white hat, turned up on the left side, |
with cream colored bow. Hold and wire. |
WALTER JACKSON,
City Marshal, Sedalia, Mo.
A little before noon to-day, a gen.
tleman from the country, came into
town, and, without knowing anything
about the sensation connected with
the matter, reported that Nellie Stark
and Iona Grant were out at William
Lowers some eleven miles north of
on the road to Marshall.
Mr.. Lower is a brother.in-law of Mr..
Ed. Mcclellan, of this city, and it
seems that the young girls, about
whom so much anxiety has been
felt, went out to Lowers to test
3 new piano which the Lowers had
Just bought from the McClellans.
They went upon invitation, but going
without advising their relatives and
friends, led to all the trouble.
Mr.. William Stark, brother of
Nellie went out to Lowers this after
noon to bring his sister and Miss
Grant home.
LATER.
Since the above was put into type,
| dispatch was received at 2:15, p. IN.
BY Mr.. James Montgomery, of the
Fair association, from j. s. Landes, ,
1t Marshall, stating that the Stark
md Grant girls were at that place,
md to wire the city marshal what
10 do.
The mystery begins to deepen
Igain.